Christy Lynn

Blessing for the home chef: May the first lid you grab fit the pot on your stove tonight and every night.

What the best book to bring to get picked for jury duty? What's the best book to bring to NOT get picked for jury duty?

What if my next article paper was on the public goods problem of tissue boxes in 3rd grade classrooms?

"But give me holly, bold and jolly,
Honest, prickly, shining holly;
Pluck me holly leaf and berry
For the day when I make merry."

From Christina Rossetti's [A rose has thorns as well as honey,]

Plucky > Cheerful

Main Page - Catherine Project If you seek real learning and real conversation, we invite you to join us in reading and discussing great books. We welcome people from all educational backgrounds and walks of life. We charge no tuit...

I don't think The Catherine Project is on BlueSky so I'll do my part to recommend them: catherineproject.org

For Spring 2025 I'm trying to decide between groups on work by George Eliot, Ken Kesey, Soren Kierkegaard, William Shakespeare, and Virginia Woolf. But there's LOTs more.

Achievement unlocked: Jury duty summons

A Timeless Reading Group: Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol - Society, Responsibility, and Happi... | Liberty Fund Portal Readings: Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol David Hume, Essays Moral, Political, and Literary, Part I, Part II, Essay III, Of Money, (page 281) and Part I, Essay XI – Of the Dignity or Meanness of ...

I'm not a Dickens fan but if you put him with some Adam Smith and David Hume, I'm in. How about you?

libertyfund.circle.so/c/timeless-c...

Folks is Folks | Online Library of Liberty Sarah Skwire doesn’t say YOU MUST READ SHAKESPEARE…but if you do, you’ll probably learn from him. And then you can reread him later to learn more and different things. In this hour-long conversa...

I wrote about why should listen to @sabineec.bsky.social's podcast and maybe, if you want to (but no one is going to force, we're not like that!), read some Shakespeare. Then reread some Shakespeare. And come talk with us about it.

.@joybuchanan.bsky.social will understand and approve.

It's never a bad day to read Adam Smith's crucial two chapters on why so many people go so inordinately far to praise and honor the powerful, but maybe a day of thinking about Kissinger's life, and the commemorations to come, is especially good.

knarf.english.upenn.edu/Smith/tms132...

It's not a person but I love 50s and 60s pop and soul. I'm never not a little happier after listening to it.

‘Adopt an axolotl’ campaign launches in Mexico to save iconic species Academics in Mexico City are asking for donations to protect axolotls, an iconic fish-like type of salamander. The campaign asks people for as little as 600 pesos to virtually adopt one of the tiny “water monsters.”

‘Adopt an axolotl’ campaign launches in Mexico to save iconic species

The 100 Greatest BBC Musical Performances. This is an incredible trove of late 20th and early 21st century musical greatness, including performances from Blondie, Dizzy Gillespie, Patti Smith, Daft Punk, Radiohead, Jimi Hendrix, Hole, and Bob Dylan. [kottke.org]

Made a Things They Carried joke at the bookstore today when they were out of bags and the clerk laughed and smiled. Then he gave me free bookmarks. Good times.

Governing the Commons Elinor Ostrom's work is relevant to most of our decisions

Most of the space where we live our lives and make individual and policy decisions involves common-pool resources and ill-defined property rights. Elinor Ostrom helped us understand how we can solve collective action problems in such situations.

knowledgeproblem.substack.com/p/governing-...

Jennifer Burns on Milton Friedman - Econlib Who was Milton Friedman? Jennifer Burns of Stanford University finds in her biography of Friedman that the answer to that question is more complicated than she thought. Listen as she and EconTalk’s ...

Really enjoyed this EconTalk with Jennifer Burns on Milton Friedman. I learned a lot about Milton and some recent economic history. www.econtalk.org/jennifer-bur...

Happy A Partially Muscled Skeleton Stands By The Perimeter Fence And Screams For Thirty Seconds Before Vanishing day for those that celebrate

Happy Partially Muscled Skeleton Stands By The Perimeter Fence And Screams For Thirty Seconds Before Vanishing day for those that celebrate

Taking a page from Carl Sagan (“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe…”), Recursive Recipes lets you replace ingredients in recipes until they are “made truly from scratch”. [kottke.org]

Interested in my research on the motives that lead people to censor? This talk contains a whole lot of my best stuff!

Happy Tear Down ALL the Walls Day to all who celebrate.

Humanities Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence

The NEH has just announced a major new initiative, "Humanities Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence." It specifically focuses on encouraging humanistic research about the potential ethical, legal, cultural, and societal impacts of AI. www.neh.gov/AI

Ummm, I love that movie.

This looks very interesting!

Ex Urbe Ad Astra: Ex Urbe Ad Astra #10 - Setups and Payoffs with Jon Evans In this episode, Ada and Jo speak with Jon Evans about the remote research versus travel, short stories, beleivability, and setting up shocking twists for striking payoffs.

New Ex Urbe Ad Astra episode where @adapalmer.bsky.social and I talk to @rezendi.com exurbe.libsyn.com/ex-urbe-ad-a...

Ada Palmer on Viking Metaphysics, Contingent Moments, and Censorship (Ep. 191) Could one tiny decision have changed The Enlightenment forever?

Really enjoyed this Conversations with Tyler interview conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/ada...

Who is the Wealthiest Generation? Mid-2023 Update The Federal Reserve has released the latest update to their Distributional Financial Accounts data, which the data underlying several of my past posts on generational wealth. With that recent data, I ...

economistwritingeveryday.com/2023/09/27/w.... An ongoing project by Jeremy at EWED

Americans Are Still Thriving - Econlib Improving standards of living are something that we have mostly taken for granted in modern America. In fact, failing to produce sufficient increases in national income is one of the surest ways for a...

Are Americans thriving today? I look into the latest data (spoiler alert: the answer is Yes)

https://www.econlib.org/library/columns/y2023/horpedahlthriving.html

One of my favorite podcasts with one of my favorite people talking about one of my favorite novels (that even economists should read). @sabineec.bsky.social

www.audacy.com/podcast/the-...

The Research Group on Constitutional Studies Lecture Series presentsRyan GriffithsPolitical Science, McGill University"Adam Smith's 'Coarse Clay' Political R... RGCS/ Smith Around The World Lecture: Ryan Griffiths, "Adam Smith's 'Coarse Clay' Political Realism"

Video now posted:

Ryan Griffiths Political Science, McGill University

"Adam Smith's 'Coarse Clay' Political Realism"

Response and comments by Shal Marriott, Political Science, McGill

An RGCS/ Smith Around the World Lecture

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWVq...